Unit 6.5 History: Nobel Laureate
Linus Pauling
Prof. Linus Pauling received the Nobel Prize for Chemistry
in 1954, for his work on the nature of chemical bonds and
the structure of molecules and crystals. He also received
the Nobel Peace Prize in 1962. Video program cues: 33:10-35:50

"I built so many models by 1948, that
I could start to do it in my head, or just on a sheet of
paper. Whats wrong about this plane, in the structure
I put here [protein structure] is that the angle between
these two bonds is 1800. But it ought to be 109.470,
the Tetrahedral Angle I dont think I got any
smarter by 1948 than I was in 1937, I didnt know anything
new, but I said suppose that all of these residues are equivalent
to one another. I knew then, that the structure that they
would have had to assume would have been that of a helix."